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Robert M. Carrothers, associate professor of sociology, has been elected membership chair and member of the executive council for the NorthCentral Sociological Association (NCSA) a regional sociology association which includes Eastern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ontario, Canada.
Ohio Northern University will host internationally renowned Iranian-American scholar Trita Parsi in the ballroom of McIntosh Student Center on Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m.Parsi’s lecture is titled “Iran, Israel and the U.S.: The Next Gulf War?” The event, sponsored by CASE and Phi Beta Delta, is free and open to the public.Parsi is president of the largest Iranian-American organization in the U.S., the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). He also is author of “A Single...
Ohio Northern University’s Phi Beta Delta honorary society for international scholars presents the Charles Fax, vice president for Israel Action at the Jewish National Fund, in the Dicke Forum on Tuesday, April 17, at 7 p.m.The title of Fax’s lecture is “Positively Israel: How Israel Makes the World a Better Place.” The presentation will include a short video and a question-and-answer session.Fax has been active in the Jewish National Fund for more than 10 years, serving as regional president...
Ohio Northern University’s Department of English will present Rebecca Lindenberg in the Elzay Gallery of Art on Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. Lindenberg will be reading from her first book of poetry, “Love, An Index.”Lindenberg wrote “Love, An Index” in memory of her former partner, the poet Craig Arnold, who tragically fell to his death in Japan while researching his poetic obsession, volcanoes. Lindenberg’s book is her elegy for Arnold.McSweeney’s Books is launching its poetry series with “...
The article "French Antimilitarism Before World War I: Gustave Hervé and L’Affiche Rouge of 1905" by Michael B. Loughlin, professor of history, has been published in the European Review of History—Revue européenne d’histoire, Vol. 19, No. 2, April 2012, 297–322. Loughlin completed the article as part of his sabbatical in the fall of 2011.
Charles Fax, vice president for Israel Affairs for Jewish National Fund, will speak at 7 p.m., April 17, in the Dicke Forum, sponsored by Phi Beta Delta and ONU’s Department of History, Politics and Justice.Fax will present "Positively Israel: How Israel Makes the World a Better Place,” a 25-minute presentation and video followed by questions and answers.During winter break the Jewish National Fund organized a tour called the Caravan for Democracy: A Student Leadership Mission to Israel...
Sara Ginty, a fourth-year pharmacy student and organizational communication minor from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, presented at the Central States Communication Association Undergraduate Conference, March 28-31, 2012, in Cleveland. This year’s conference was exceptionally competitive with a less than at 25 percent acceptance rate. Ginty’s work was selected as an outstanding poster presentation at the conference. Sara Ginty, right, and advisor Dr. Chris North pose at the Central States...
ONU professors and math majors conducted a symposium on Careers in Math at the 11th annual Ohio Northern University High School Math Awareness Day, held March 27. The full day of events was hosted by the ONU Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Mathile Center for the Natural Sciences.The seminars were "Why is One Usually First?" by Dr. Sandy Schroeder, "Probabilistic Paradoxes in Paradise," by Dave Mangus,...
Ohio Northern University’s Percussion Ensemble and Steel Drum Band will begin a tour to historic Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., on March 30. The ONU band is under the direction of Dr. Sarah Waters, assistant professor of music, who will take her students to Elder and Seton High Schools in Cincinnati before heading to Nashville.The ONU Steel Drum Band and Percussion Ensemble will perform works for percussion and steel drums by composer Gary Powell Nash, a professor of music at Fisk. These...
Ohio Northern University student Zachary Dunn, a senior ACS chemistry and applied physics double major with an astronomy minor and an education concentration, has been selected as a Goldwater Scholar by the trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This marks the eighth consecutive year that Ohio Northern students have received this honor, the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.A...
